Bob Pratt
A Brazilian general who became interested in UFOs because of a U.S. Air Force film spent that last thirty six years of his life publicly proclaiming UFOs exist because he had seen more than sixty, some of them up close.
A Brazilian general who became interested in UFOs because of a U.S. Air Force film spent that last thirty six years of his life publicly proclaiming UFOs exist because he had seen more than sixty, some of them up close.
“I
don't BELIEVE that UFOs are real – I KNOW they are," said Alfredo Moacyr
Uchôa, former deputy director of the Military Academy of Brazil, that
country's equivalent of West Point. (For a guide to pronouncing unfamiliar
Brazilian names, click here.)
General
Uchôa (below right) was critical of officials and scientists who claim
they do not exist. "I have seen UFOs and
I have been in touch with them. With millions of people seeing them and the
governments and scientists of the world saying, 'No, you’re not
seeing them’ – this is bad, very bad.
"Scientists
would prefer not to think about UFOs because it would be a true revolution
to their science. This threatens the structure of science. This is why scientists
do not want to study or even to acknowledge them. But in the long run they
are going to.”
During
an interview in his home in Brasília, he said he remembered vividly how he
first became interested in UFOs. He was fifty four at the time.
“In
1960, when I was a student at our Superior School of War, all the students
were invited to the American Embassy to see a film made by the U.S. Air Force,
and in the film we saw the big event of the visit of many objects over Washington
in the 1950s that was caught on radar. I saw this and
got inspired, got interested. The American Air Force wouldn't have
delivered this document without its being true. So I was impressed and I decided
to study the matter if the opportunity ever appeared.”
General Uchôa retired in 1963 after
more than forty years in the army. For the last twenty five years of his career,
he was a professor of engineering mechanics at the academy. He was also head
of the mathematics department and for twelve years was deputy director of
the academy, which is located near Rio de Janeiro.
An Air Force spokesman at the Pentagon
acknowledged that the Air Force made a film based on
the Project Blue Book investigation of UFOs after the famous 1950 UFO “invasion”
of Washington, D.C. However, neither he nor anyone at the U.S. Embassy in
Brazil remembered its being shown in Brazil.
FIRST
SIGHTING IN 1968
For General Uchôa, the opportunity
to personally study UFOs came in 1968, after he moved to Brasília, the nation’s
capital.
“When I came here, a son of mine who is
an officer in the army knew that on a farm near the community of Alexânia
certain things had happened. He had never seen anything there but he knew
others had. I was introduced to the owner of the farm. We organized a group
and started our research there in March 1968."
"Alexânia
is far from here, about a hundred and twenty kilometers west of Brasília.
We had that long journey of driving two hundred and forty kilometers there
and back at night two or three times a week.
"There
were eight of us, including me and the farm owner. We had three military men,
including my son, then a lieutenant and now a major, and a friend of his,
a major in the air force, a professor
of physics, a professor of law and others in different professions.
"The first contact was July 22, 1968.
The first contact was extraordinary. There were eight of us, all friends,
and we saw the object clearly in front of us, radiating an intense bluish-whitish
light. Then quickly the object disappeared and immediately appeared to the
right at a higher point in the mountains.
"When
we started concentrating on the new position, it disappeared and went back
to the first position. Later, the object went up into the sky maybe two thousand
meters and from there it lit up the whole area where we were.
“From that day on for the next ten months,
every night we went there we had the opportunity of seeing extraordinary
phenomena. We saw it at least sixty, maybe a hundred times. I wrote a book
about it."
In
the book, titled Parapsychology and Flying Saucers, The
Alexânia case, General Uchôa described in detail the most
spectacular sightings. In each case he identified everyone who was with him
at each of the sightings. They include military men and professional and business
people.
One
of them was Dr. Oswaldo França, a professor of law at the University Center
of Brasília. "Everything he wrote is true,”
Dr. França told me. “General Uchôa and I and the others used to go there
many times a week and we had the opportunity of seeing many luminous phenomena.
I can confirm the truth of this phenomenon. I saw it many times with my own
eyes.”
EXCHANGES
SIGNALS WITH UFO
General Uchôa died on March 5, 1996,
six weeks before his ninetieth birthday. When I interviewed him on February
17, 1979, he said he would never have written about what he and the others
had seen at Alexânia if he had been alone. The book details some of
the close encounters.
"I saw a friend of mine get about
one meter away from a being from the object, and the rest at us watched from
about a hundred and forty meters away using binoculars. Some time after, I
personally got within ten to fifteen meters of the object."
General
Uchôa said he wanted to get closer and go aboard but the occupants wouldn't
let him. “I was very near. I am certain they did not invite me to get in,
and they did not leave the object. They did not open the door.
“They
talked with us with light signals. I asked them to let me enter the UFO but
they did not agree. For instance, they gave me three signals indicating I
could get nearer. But when I gave them a signal, they would give me two or
three times as many signals as I would ask for.
“For
instance, I would think, 'If I can go there, please give me three signals
and I will go nearer and go in,' but they would give five signals or ten signals
or something different from what I asked. So they did not agree to let me
in.”
The
sightings were frequent for ten months but after that they dwindled off, he
said.
"In
1973, I started having another kind experience, telepathic experience, dealing
with the telepathic way of getting in touch with them. I started being able
to understand them in a telepathic way. Their thoughts came to me in my own."
General
Uchôa said that from these beings he learned there are many groups visiting
earth, most of them from other star systems but some from our own
solar system. Most, but not all, mean us no harm, he said.
“There
are many different kinds, many groups of different origins with different
interests. These people we have been in touch with are of high spiritual conditions
and are very benevolent. They mean us no harm.
"But
others don’t care about us, other visitors from outer space. They are indifferent
to us. They don't care about us. They want to study our planet, our living
conditions, our animals, our plants and so on without paying any attention
to us as responsible men. So, sometimes they can be aggressive."
General
Uchôa, who went on to publish several other books about UFOs, said it
is possible there are many people in the world who have or have had contact
with space beings.
"Sooner
or later everybody in the world will have concrete proof that UFOs are real
and are from outer space. They say to me they are preparing a more ostensive
contact and ask us to be patient, to wait a little more."
What
can people on earth do?
"Nothing
but wait," he said.
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